Christine McCulloch purchased the book for about £10 (approximately Rs 1,070) in 1997 from a Stratford-upon-Avon bookshop as ...
A rare first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, bought for £10 in 1997, sold for £36,000 at auction, ...
Whyte’s Whyte’s sale of Irish & International Art takes place on December 2, with Paul Henry and Jack B Yeats vying for top status. The paintings in question are Killary Bay, Connemara, circa 1910-15 ...
Two first-edition copies of Harry Potter were sold for eye-watering amounts at auction in Lichfield yesterday (November 27) - ...
And it took the patient sleuthing of a rare books and manuscripts curator from the Newberry Library to reunite the lost books — some printed decades before Shakespeare penned his first play ...
Two of rarest Harry Potter books ever printed could achieve £100,000 at the world's first auction dedicated entirely to the ...
An extremely rare first edition of Niccolò Machiavelli’s famous political manual “The Prince” is going up for auction, with ...
A Library of Libraries: Private Collections in the Bentley Rare Book Museum is an exhibition that highlights and critically analyzes private book collections that exist in the Bentley Rare Book Museum ...
In his delightful memoir of collecting rare and fine books, The Book Beautiful, Sebastian writes, “…don’t miss out on the many-layered, intoxicating pleasures of book collecting….
Rare and valuable manuscripts, including an original edition of Alf Laila wa Laila, are up for sale at the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) 2024. And the total price tag? Up to Dh2.5 million.
From a British monarch’s musings on his trip to India in 1877 to a 200-year-old book, The Antiquarian Bookworm at Bookworm on ...
The same November sale at Rare Book Auctions, in Lichfield, Staffs., also includes three paperback first editions of Philosopher’s Stone. Two are guided at £6,000-£8,000 while a third has an ...